Increasing the extinction risk of highly connected species causes a sharp robust-to-fragile transition in empirical food webs

Michele Bellingeri, Davide Cassi and Simone Vincenzi

Ecological Modelling, 2013, vol. 251, issue C, 1-8

Abstract: Random removal and the attack from most- to least-connected node (i.e. species) are the two limit criteria for sequential extinction of species in food webs, but a continuum of possibilities exists between them.

Keywords: Complex biological networks; Food web robustness; Scale-free networks; Extinction risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.12.011

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